Gate Lodge, Leanchoil Hospital, 85 St Leonards Road, Forres is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 February 1993. Gate lodge.
Gate Lodge, Leanchoil Hospital, 85 St Leonards Road, Forres
- WRENN ID
- tall-chancel-harvest
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1993
- Type
- Gate lodge
- OS grid reference
- NJ 048 582
- Coordinates
- 57.60382, -3.5936
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gate Lodge at Leanchoil Hospital, located at 85 St Leonards Road in Forres, was built in 1892 and is likely part of a design by John Rhind from 1889. Alternatively, it may have been designed later by H Saxon Snell, who took over the project after Rhind's death in August 1889. The lodge features details similar to the main hospital block, such as chamfered angles, chimney stacks, a finial, a slate roof, and plate glass sash and case windows. It is a single-storey, L-shaped building with three bays facing the main road to the south, an advanced gable on the left, and an inscription panel beneath a stepped hood-mould. The wide inner doorway has two leaves with partly-glazed doors, and there are bipartite windows in both the gable facing the main road and the gable facing the driveway to the east. Additionally, there is a free-standing fountain dated 1897, which may commemorate a royal jubilee.
Local climate
Gate Lodge, Leanchoil Hospital, 85 St Leonards Road, Forres receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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